Tuesday, November 15, 2011

A Modernist and a Medievalist Trade Insults

Modernist to medievalist: Medieval philosophy is substance abuse!

Medievalist to modernist: Modern philosophy is self abuse!

(And that reminds me of a marginalium Schopenhauer inscribed into his copy of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre: Onanie! (onanism) Wissenschaftslehre translates as Theory of Science. Schopenhauer, however, referred in print to Fichte's book as Wissenschaftsleere, which sounds the same but translates as Empty of Science.

If Schopenhauer had a blog, what might he call it? The Scowl of Minerva.)